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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: visit the neighborhoods yourself. Walk Score is a deeply flawed criterion and often doesn't match the actual walkability of the neighborhood. Not all stores are created equal: if you live in FH or CCDC, while it may seem nice to have Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza Gallerie nearby, those malls are essentially worthless for actual life. (And WalkScore still gives credit to some bodega-equivalent on Western that I've never, not once, seen open.) [b]Actually, despite living in the area, much of Wisconsin Ave. is passable at best for commercial (exceptions being around Tenleytown metro). For many day-to-day things, the &quot;Spring Valley&quot; shopping center on Mass [b](Sbucks, Le Pain Quotidien, CVS, thai, pizza, grocery store)[/b] is more useful or at least as useful as the Tenleytown metro hub.[/b] The point is, don't trust a website and instead walk yourself. [/quote]

You don't know FH very well, do you?
FH has a Starbucks, Le Pain Quot, a CVS, Indian and Japanese, Range, Potomac Pizza, and a Whole Foods, as well as an H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom Rack, Bloomies, Gap, BR, Clydes, Anthropologie, movie theater, etc, and a METRO and several bus lines.
It's objectively much more urban and useful than living in Spring Valley, where you are stuck driving and have a very, very limited number of shops.[/quote]

You're wrong; I know FH well. My point was that the presence of CCP and MG make the WalkScore higher than it really should be. The useful shops you mention, save for Starbucks in the basement of the CCP, are not in CCP or MG. Or, are you actually going to assert that Nieman Marcus, Chas. Swartz and Foot Locker are useful for daily living? H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Bloomingdales and Anthropologie are, at best, useful several times a year.

I never contended that FH was less urban than SV. That's nonsense, but it sure does make a good straw man. My comparison was between the Tenleytown Metro hub (Best Buy, Container Store, Ace Hardware, Panera, SBucks, Guapo's, Domino's, CVS, Whole Foods) to the shops at Spring Valley (CVS, Wagshal's, Homemade Pizza, Tara Thai, Le Pain, SBucks, Fresh and Greens). Sure, Ace and Guapo's would be great, but Homemade Pizza &gt; Dominos and LPQ &gt; Panera. Whole Foods versus Fresh & Greens isn't really a comparison, but I'm not sure I'd be happy with only Whole Foods.

Better luck next time. [/quote]

Well then, I suggest that you learn to write more clearly and argue logically. See bolded. Pretty much all the items that you point out as useful off off Mass are at FH off Wisconsin and not just around Tenley (and BTW, there is a second Starbucks on Wisconsin in FH just north of the Gap, as well as a coffee shop on the upper level of the WF, a Panera Bread, and a Cosi within three blocks of FH Metro).

Also, there is no arguing about the dearth of public transit in Spring Valley, esp in comparison to the Wisc Ave corridor.

I agree with PP who said that if money were no object, buying in MD just north of FH/CC near the Metro is your best bet.
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